Tractor Supply Chicks Not Being Taken Care Of

[DA in AZ]

Not good. I was the Tractor Supply on Buckeye, AZ today. I was there to buy Equine Senior and on my way to the register I stopped to look at the chicks. It’s horrible, every chick in the stacked brooder had pasty butt really extremely bad! There was an store worker cleaning the plastic on the brooder. I advised her about the chicks condition also of the one dead that was being trampled on, flat! I asked to speak to the store manager. I informed the store manager, Mark, that the chicks were not being taking care of because every single chick had extreme pasty butt.something wrong with
these brooder because I have never seen TSC chicks look this way. The store manager said he will get someone to take care of them. I can’t believe no one working there knew this already!!! I purchased 6 just to try to save their lives. I took them home and cleaned them up and they are now under a heat lamp sleeping. If anyone is in the Buckeye area please go by and take a look. Please let them know this isn’t right.

 

[arwoon]

Many threads have been made about the new brooders, it is sad. There is a petition you can sign somewhere on here, I don't k ow where it is a the moment

 

[DA in AZ]

I found it

 

[Oncoming Storm]

Not good. I was the Tractor Supply on Buckeye, AZ today. I was there to buy Equine Senior and on my way to the register I stopped to look at the chicks. It’s horrible, every chick in the stacked brooder had pasty butt really extremely bad! There was an store worker cleaning the plastic on the brooder. I advised her about the chicks condition also of the one dead that was being trampled on, flat! I asked to speak to the store manager. I informed the store manager, Mark, that the chicks were not being taking care of because every single chick had extreme pasty butt.something wrong with
these brooder because I have never seen TSC chicks look this way. The store manager said he will get someone to take care of them. I can’t believe no one working there knew this already!!! I purchased 6 just to try to save their lives. I took them home and cleaned them up and they are now under a heat lamp sleeping. If anyone is in the Buckeye area please go by and take a look. Please let them know this isn’t right.

I think a lot of TSCs also start their chicks on medicated feed since most of the hatcheries they’re supplied by. I think that is only exacerbating the problem. The only time I’ve ever seen them have issues with the stacked brooders (the ones in my area have used them for a few years now) is recently. It was just the assorted bantams. Most of them also had pasty butt and they were all crowded under the heater which I don’t think was working because they weren’t getting warm. Is also doesn’t help with shipping delays. It seems like TSC is having a hard time rn. I’d look into the hatcheries as well since they had that whole debacle of purchased chicks dying within a couple of days of purchase for no reason.

 

[Eggs by Happy Chickens]

Not good. I was the Tractor Supply on Buckeye, AZ today. I was there to buy Equine Senior and on my way to the register I stopped to look at the chicks. It’s horrible, every chick in the stacked brooder had pasty butt really extremely bad! There was an store worker cleaning the plastic on the brooder. I advised her about the chicks condition also of the one dead that was being trampled on, flat! I asked to speak to the store manager. I informed the store manager, Mark, that the chicks were not being taking care of because every single chick had extreme pasty butt.something wrong with
these brooder because I have never seen TSC chicks look this way. The store manager said he will get someone to take care of them. I can’t believe no one working there knew this already!!! I purchased 6 just to try to save their lives. I took them home and cleaned them up and they are now under a heat lamp sleeping. If anyone is in the Buckeye area please go by and take a look. Please let them know this isn’t right.

It’s terrible. Yet most of the people that work at tractor supply have no idea about farm life or farm animals. 9 out of 10 employees don’t know what breed of chicks they have. Like one told me that the breed was brown egg layer when that is just a variety.

 

[chickmamato7]

Not good. I was the Tractor Supply on Buckeye, AZ today. I was there to buy Equine Senior and on my way to the register I stopped to look at the chicks. It’s horrible, every chick in the stacked brooder had pasty butt really extremely bad! There was an store worker cleaning the plastic on the brooder. I advised her about the chicks condition also of the one dead that was being trampled on, flat! I asked to speak to the store manager. I informed the store manager, Mark, that the chicks were not being taking care of because every single chick had extreme pasty butt.something wrong with
these brooder because I have never seen TSC chicks look this way. The store manager said he will get someone to take care of them. I can’t believe no one working there knew this already!!! I purchased 6 just to try to save their lives. I took them home and cleaned them up and they are now under a heat lamp sleeping. If anyone is in the Buckeye area please go by and take a look. Please let them know this isn’t right.

That's horrible. Keep visiting and speaking to management, and get others to do the same until things improve.

 

[Tankueray]

A few months ago when this really hit the fan, I messaged corporate and got the response that anyone with concerns should call their customer service number and report the store, date, and time of the occurrence; and they would be able to provide an email to send pictures to as well.

 

[DA in AZ]

Thanks. So this has been going on 2 mos and they haven’t fixed it!!!!

 

[Mellowmalt]

what do you expect from a TSC store, it woud take an employee over an hour to clean them all which costs money. Also nobody wants to clean poo unless its their own birds.

 

[DA in AZ]

I would if it’s going to save a life.